Tuesday, September 16, 2008

CLASSIC SKULLS pt.3

Once again, more skateboarding nostalgia. This time, the classic Vato Rat.

Even before I knew much about skateboarding 'culture' (or the 1980's phenomenon called Powell Peralta), I was familiar with this image, and it was already synonymous with skateboarding. Probably 20 years went by until I learned that the artist was also the same mind behind the visual identity of the Future Primitive graphics, among many more. I know that I have personally drawn the Vato Rat a thousand times or more, and none of them as good as the original. Something about those drips....ahahhaha. Thanks Stecyk!